If you’re still a slave to an internet connection and your webserver when developing WordPress sites, you need to set up a local development environment. If you plan on attending the development workshop today, you’ll need to have your laptop configured and ready to go! The experts at this workshop will help you get your laptop set up with the right configuration of free and open source software used daily by WordPress developers to develop quickly and reliably on their local computers. We will also discuss the critical issue of how to get your development site off of your local computer and synchronized to the remote (often live) website.